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Yaa101··on Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation
In hindsight you can say he suffered from imposter syndrome. People often have trouble to accept that an easy working solution to a difficult problem is an act of genius, instead they feel that they took a shortcut and are non deserving.
Yaa101··on Ask HN: I implemented the life I designed: perfect but I feel lost. What now?
Just a suggestion...

Help other people, make art and listen to "Skating Polly"...

Yaa101··on The History of Development of Norton Commander (2010)
MC is great but very slow when copying or moving a lot of small files, when I have a task like that I use SpaceFM in the GUI.
Yaa101··on Sweden’s Relaxed Approach to Covid-19 Isn’t Working
The countries that were hit hard were countries that had a collapsed healthcare system to begin with, collapsed through austerity, politicians of these countries only try to safe their ass and re-elect-ability...
Yaa101··on Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics
I see... Problem for me would be that updating that library would mean an investment of all these different devices, and you know they ain't come cheap. Would it be an option to create a virtual device which could be populated with the hardware rules of each of these producers, to enable swift creation of bindings in all sorts of languages without quick aging of code?
Yaa101··on Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics
Hi, I think you do a service to the world, I am a seller of toys, as shop owner, but was/am reluctant to sell teledildonics just because of security problems, I will keep a close look on your project to decide if and when I will start selling them and point my customers to your project. Any chance of using golang in the future?
Yaa101··on Why we listen to new music
>Anyway I object to a statement "this is utter crap"; you're presenting your personal opinion as a hard fact which is a big part of everything that is wrong today.

That is how you interpret my personal opinion, I never said if things are wrong today, I just stated that today's new music is utter crap in my opinion. There is a lot of good music played by nowadays musicians.

I have no problem with you disagreeing with my personal opinion, but I do have a problem with you telling that I imply other things than I am telling.

>"this is utter crap", I never said that, there is a difference between "I think" and "This is", Don't twist my words, you are being dishonest in this conversation for doing that.

Yaa101··on Why we listen to new music
Since internet I listened to all new music from the 20th century. A lot of "old music" from foregone age was new to me. So new music is a relative term. However, and that is my personal opinion, most new music from 2000-2020 I think is total utter crap, I rather listen to something from 1914 with horrible sound quality than something from 2014.
Yaa101··on Doctors with Coronavirus Frightened by Their Own Symptoms
There is a difference between getting a few virus particles on the street from another person or getting bucket loads full while operating in that environment. In the former case your body gets some time to respond, in the latter case the reproduction speed of the virus will surprise the defense mechanism of the body. Medical workers from low too high are the real heroes at this moment in this pandemic.
Yaa101··on [dead]
Being dependent on that for jobs is a lousy thing of course. I am just a hobby developer and don't need to discuss things like that, I just have to look out for bugs and solve them myself if needed, as I do not redistribute I care less about giving back solved code. Success with your job(s) further.
Yaa101··on [dead]
I agree with you on your gripes with COCs, WOKE, etc...

They are political constructs to lock people out instead of integrating people. Individuals that force these COCs on groups of people want a political instrument to gain power over others.

COCs are also used often to try and contain perceived powergrabs.

In your case, with your gripes over multi platform, you have the right to complain about that, I or others have the right to either ignore you or debate you over it, waving a COC is overkill and shows indeed fear of you trying to convince members of that community of your point.

Things like language, unless direct threats of violence, should not be an argument to exclude people from debate.

This is my opinion, b.t.w. I have none whatsoever connection with the community where this issue is happening.

It is however a reason why I hardly join discussions of any kind on most platforms on the internet.

For you the question is: "Do I really want to be around these people?"

Yaa101··on Daylight Savings Time: Delicious, but Deadly
28 deaths on a population of almost 9 billion, do we really need to put so much resources and energy into such a figure?

This is a philosofical question, not trolling. Given that most if not all of our modern problems stem from overpopulation, do we really need to save all people from bad things happening to them?

Yaa101··on Bypass Paywalls Clean for Firefox
I am not sure if I want to use this but I am happy to see an extension like this.

Of course the sites in question are allowed to try and raise money from me, and I feel I am allowed to try to dodge this.

More important however, I feel that these serious news sites with their current behavior are contributing to the fake news proliferation as people keep on reading news but since they cannot read serious news sites they are forced to read facebook's and other crappy sources their gossipy, manipulative and spammy propaganda.

I contribute money to The Guardian because of this, they vowed to keep their serious news site open and reward them a contribution for it, I hope more people will for the same reason.

Yaa101··on Ask HN: Thought experiment: What is the best city/country to hide from COVID-19?
Mars, but then you have other problems... lol...
Yaa101··on Show HN: A stream of AI-generated art
This is a good question, I dunno really.

On one hand is art really art without the bullshit story of the maker that defines the art? Sometimes we really want the creator to shut up making bullshit stories and just enjoy what has been made.

On the other hand, is a AI algo really a form of being creative? Nature is an algo that creates things.

Do things have to be art to appreciate their beauty? Is art about beauty? Is art about statements?

etc. etc.

Probably all answers are personal really.

Yaa101··on Millimeter Wave: A Bridge Too Far?
They probably will use millimeter wave only for data paths and use the unused bandwidth of 4G for commando and surveillance paths.
Yaa101··on New droplet-based electricity generator: A drop of water generates 140V power
Voltage is not power, power is voltage*amperes, grmblm...
Yaa101··on Fungi That 'Eat' Radiation Are Growing on the Walls of Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor
If they eat radiation, what do they poop out?
Yaa101··on Using floating-point numbers for money
Easy, either implement a decimal type (4 fractional digits) as most programming languages have them implemented by users. or multiply by 10000 then do your calculation and then divide by 10000 again. I used a decimal type for the administration program I coded.
Yaa101··on People no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life, survey shows
The problem is that a lot of people do not want to take that risk of putting in a lot of hours and maybe not succeed, and thus end up being a wage slave.
Yaa101··on Ask HN: How to Master Linux?
Most important is to know where your "stuff" is. Learn how the filesystem on your disks are built up. Try to use the terminal as there is the hidden world of linux capabilities, often commandline programs are very efficient, they save you a lot of mouse movements and clicks. Install mc to help you within the terminal.
Yaa101··on Poll: Linux users, what desktop environment do you use?
You mean one that spies on you? Don't you think that defies what Linux et al. is all about?

Besides, The main function of the Linux world is developing computational solutions, not bring people desktops for money.

Linux is used to make money much different than that, ask the users of supercomputers, or people that develop communication systems.

Yaa101··on The trouble with indiscriminate tree-planting in Africa
Anther thing is that by planting trees you increase the oxygen level and will cause fires that way, but also oxygen will cause a temperature drop.

As far as I know all green does this, probably planting grass on baren land will cause as much progres as trees would.

I think the most important job for us humans is to create alternatives for growing crops so that we can stop depleting our top soils and stop injecting fertilizers and poisons and give these top soils back to the green stuff that will cool down the planet a bit.

Yaa101··on The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say
Probably they mean The universe is a space with many black holes that each contain a universe. A black hole starts life after a big bang.
Yaa101··on The Uncertain Fate of Amsterdam’s Red-Light District
It is, I live in the Red Light District for 34 years and have seen it all. This plan to get rid of the girls is a setup of the civil cervants and the church since around 2000. When I came living there in 1985 the neighborhood was rough, relative unsave because of dealers and junkies and there was a lot of crappy state housing. Round 2000 most of these problems were gone and the land/housing slowly started to become more valueable. A lot of parties with interest to gain a lot from that neighbourhood, with all their own reasons, started to plan for the removal of coffeeshops and the girls. The tourists coming for these coffeeshops were low key and hardly a problem for the authorities. The interested parties started 1012 project to buy out all the owners of the window bordellos, this failed due to finance problems caused by the expensive north/south metroline and the downfall of the economy in 2008. Then the parties had another plan, "Let's invite lower class uncivil drinking tourists through the tourist buro", then they can trash the neibourhood and make life difficult for the ladies behind the windows. Then the parties started to talk how little respect and danger these girls are getting from those tourists, now we have a reason to relocate these girls and make the money from those now high valued buildings and land. There are billions involved with this, don't let people fool you into thinking that there is a milligram of altruism.
Yaa101··on Pack Your Bags – Systemd Is Taking You to a New Home
I have only one problem with LUKS container home directories, in my eyes disk hardware is too flaky to handle fully encrypted filesystems.

I have no problems with encrypted files, but I am not waiting for access problems of my own stuff.

systemd-homed is a solution for NSA and secret companies, not for someone like me who has no problem with how things function today.

But I am afraid there is no opt out but only filosophy enforcement.

Yaa101··on Scientists now thing being overweight can protect your health
It is not strange, we slightly heavier persons have much more energy for the body to fight of external problems like virii and bacteria, besides I have seen a lot of "fit" people who are heavier and a lot of ill ones who are thin. thin == fit has more to do with fashion and culture than with health. Many people don't realize that all of us are the decendents of the wealthy and fat in the middle ages.
Yaa101··on Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric
The downside is that independent entities are not anymore able to design hardware projects, there are only a few companies that can design and make such integrated circuits. Cpu's are not only made for computers but for all sorts of appliances. Time will tell if these big companies will sell chiplets and the tech to assemble them onto silicon to 3rd paties. PCB tech is fairly democratic in that sense.
Yaa101··on [dead]
Und? If republican politicians talk nazi shit why should their speech be protected because they are republican politicians?

If one group their speech should be put under a enlarging glass then it's politicians in general as they are the ones that can cause the most dangerous situations in society with their speech.

Yaa101··on Bolsonaro has blessed ‘brutal' assault on Amazon, sacked scientist warns
Yes, but it's The Amazon and not Amazon.

Besides, Bolsonaro should be bound to a tree and flogged hard the same number of times a tree fell under his presidency.

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